Comments on: Strine

By: Joliet Jake

Joliet Jake — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:31:40 +0000

This is funny but complete garbage. I’ve been to Australia many, many times and so I say this is funny but complete garbage.

Australians are different people, some are very funny, I had a great time over there but this kind of stuff is like Crocodile Dundee. Pop.

By: Tom Joad

Tom Joad — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:21:12 +0000

I’d heard that – it doesn’t take long for a dialect or branch of a language to appear, does it? Stay tuned for more Australianisms, this time somewhat more “official”. I hope to have the first part up in the next couple of days.

By: Autolycus

Autolycus — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:31:30 +0000

I quite like “shoot through like a Bondi tram” (considering that Bondi is at the bottom of a rather steep hill, I wonder if a tram ever overshot its destination).

By: Daphne Wayne-Bough

Daphne Wayne-Bough — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:32:19 +0000

The Australian accent is supposed to have developed out of the cockney intonation, due to the first settlers being convicts shipped from Newgate Prison in sarf London. Although the way Strine is written, it looks more like a new aboriginal dialect. The Aussies also have some wonderfully graphic expressions, such as “He was all over the place like an old lady’s breakfast”.

By: Tom Joad

Tom Joad — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:29:55 +0000

Sorry Autolycus, your post got sent to my spam queue – even though it knows you. I will be giving it a stern talking to later.

Thanks for the update. I will enjoy reading that at the weekend.

By: Autolycus

Autolycus — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:51:15 +0000

Now updated for “Prue and Trude”:
http://www.kathandkim.com/threw.htm